Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-10-26


course CAM sswelI, how 20 "By the
but Ihave."-Puck.
Miss Music Delhi is now in the city b.
ing a full stock of new fan and winta- -.
to- ladies'. The ladies' appreciate her en-
terprise and doubtless will avail themse Iva.
OF the opportunity to patronrze her.
To all subscribers TO the sESrrSr,
REPUBLICAN who pay arrearages and nav
one dollar and hity cents in advance. Tb>
Weekly Press and the SENTINEL Avn p,
PUBLICAN will be sent for the period of one
year.
Returns from India, ndicate that all the
wheat RAISED in that country This va.r nj
be needed at home, and that settles i, ,h.,
the British viii not be able TO sell wheat in /
America in 1855 at 40 cents bushel. There I
Is prospect of rise in the price of whea, /
between this time aud next harvest.
| The hugh joke that was COTTON OF on NJ
John N Howe, that he should be eIectet
to the office of County Treasurer on The
merit OF being town man is a sort of a
boomerang that has sprung back on itself.
( ami viii result IN making a town man of
countryman Shellenberger. Very well. sncb
cOuntrymen as Mr.. Shellenberger are wei
come, and will make good town men. Mr.
Howe was no better countryman before be
moved TO town than is Mr.. ShelIenberger.
Last Wednesday, Kirby Keller, of WALL
er township, while helping to move n hand
car loaded with 1000 pounds of steel rails.
tor new track at Van Dyke station. was
knocked down by the car, the wheels of
which passed over his right leg, between
the ankle and knee joints, breaking one of
the bones Of the leg and puncturinz the
flesh of the limb. He WAS brought to this
station on an engine. Surgical attention
was rendered by DR.. D. NJ. Crawford and
Son.
Our contemporary the Democrat and Reg
lister, is at its jokes again. It is patting An
son B. Wills on the back, a. If to encour-
age him to vote against Mr.. Meminger, be-
cause Meminger secured the nomination for
Prothonotary. IL wont win, Anson knows
good thing when he sees it, and he sees
what a handsome vote he rece ived at the
Primary Election, and be could not bring
himself to offend that support by opposing
: Nr. Meminger. The Democrat and Regis
ter thinks jokes are free in harvest.
) John aoyer, sickly youth, aged about
; 81 years, son of John and Lydia Meyer OF
Harrisburg, in ihe effort to get off Local
Freight at this station while the train was
B running last Thursday, was struck by the
car following the one from which he step
d, ped. The stroke on the shoulder whirled
him about aud caused him TO slide Tar
enough under the cars for the break "a
- strike his legs, thereby turning him around
so that some part Of the truck struck hi.
head breaking II, and causing deail
within period OF five minutes. A few
days previous to his death he was in thi
: place visiting frendss and selling paper
Upon the order of the railroad company, W
+. Snyder had the remains nicely eofineC
{ snd sent to Harrisburg by Sea Shore o
Friday for interment.
Sc On the afternoon of the 18th INST. Nj
3 Emanuel Meyer, living on his farm ne,
this place was engaged in his barn thresl
IN ing buckwheat. dis son John was heI,
ar ing him. About . ?. m, John went to Il
stable to attend stock wanting a fork tn
NJ had been left up stairs on the barn floor,
"a sent his nephew Guy Meyer to get the for
~ The child found his grandfather lying SIC
on the straw. Mr.. Meyer was able to speal
His family took him to the house, where |
related to the family that he was taken 81,
aud sank to the floor Ssoon after his 81
John had left him. He soon after becau
unconscious aud lay in that condition u
d til Thursday morning about sthree o'clo
at which hour he expired. He was abo
Ii 81 years old. He was a man upright in
walk and conversation, and industrious
MS his habits, sad lett the world without bel
nre ITS debtor. Interment in Presbyteri
err graveyard
From the .Lewistown F rec Press L
nh Saturday evening a most disgraceful dg
Hrs Of tongues TOOK place on the streets of Z
ors quiet village, Milroy, between a couple
girls of the west end. If we had a pol
-, force we think certain parties here wo
furnish some work for the blue coats.
About McVeytown the potato crop see
to be extremely scarce, it being almost
possible tor our citizens to purchase "
the they will need to carry them over the "
the ter There was almost blood shed
rem the corner of the diamond in MeVeyto'
city LAST Monday evening, when a woman bra
ish ed an axe handle and threatened TO
{ in one o' our young men in two. Parties
aid terfering no doubt saved the young man a
Nc we're blow, as the woman had blood in
pro- eye. '-- As Cal. Myers was threshing cl
er seed o. his residence the other day, 81
able -
arm. ,,,,-,.5 s..
with the belt that ran the machinery. He
firing with dry chestnut wood. The mac